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mad money. welcome to cramerica. people make friends i'm just trying to make you little money. my job is not just to entertain and educate, but i want to teach you and explain. and tonight i'm doing it. so call me at one 800 703 cnbc or tweet me jimcramer. we too often invest for the day. i always hear people talking about what's working at the moment and the old days when the great mark haines ruled the mornings around here. i remember that each time i co-hosted he would introduce me as reverend jim bob from the church of what's happening now. it was fun back then. it seemed like everyone was running their own personal hedge fund. there was an understanding that a stock could be here today and gone tomorrow, and everything was fine. everyone was fine with it. those days are over, though, and if you recommend a stock for trade, even if you say buy it today for the analyst meeting tomorrow and then you sell, there will always be a video on youtube. kicking around shows you like the stock but never gave the sell call. so we've

gone beyond that. we're all about educating you to be a better investor, the same we do every day at a higher intense level at the cnbc investing club that i want you to join tonight, i want to introduce you to the concept that is so important. and it's called suitability. basically, what stocks fit you? what investments are right for you? not for this week, not for this month, but for your age, for your temperament. i first heard of the concept of suitability when i was in training at goldman sachs for the group that helped small institutions and individuals, now called private wealth management. i've been buying individual stocks for myself and others for a half decade. before i got to goldman in 1983 as a summer intern. at the time, i was watching financial news network between classes at harvard law school. that was the predecessor to cnbc. whenever i could, i'd run over to the harvard business school library, where they had all these old research reports from long gone firms like based shearson lehman about stocks totally on a catch as catch can basis. those of you

who grew up with the internet have no idea how hard it was to access information in the 80s. if i like the company, i would have to ask the librarian for a microfiche of the firm's sec filings. i don't know, do they still have microfiches? these were little pieces of plastic that you stuck into a machine, and you read the filings, all of which were usually six months old by the time i got them. everything i did back then is online now and instant and updated. the imperfections in the market back then were legion. now everyone can know everything. but more on that later tonight. i spend all week trying to find one stock that i thought would work, one stock that would be good for a week, where anyone who wanted to invest could take the idea. and then i changed my answering machine. yes, my answering machine. another thing we got rid of. i changed the message to a 22nd wrap on the stock. don't know any answering machines. can you imagine? well, some company used to make them. with all those jobs wiped out by your cell phone. same with answering services for that matter. talk about jobs that aren't coming

back. anyway, i'd say. hi, this is jim. i'm not here right now, but i like both the chart and the recent numbers from people express, a long since bankrupt airline that i used to jet down to new york for job interviews. my best one a recommendation for monolithic memories. a smoke show of a company with a red hot stock that was run by a guy named steve drury, who two decades later helped save tesla back when it was struggling during the financial crisis. he was the last ceo before elon musk. anyway, monolithic is shot up like a rocket that we can only ended up being acquired by advanced micro devices at a very big premium. it was the best. cramer's not at home call. his machine hit i ever had. and believe it or not, jim is not home became a rallying cry for lots of people who were calling me back then, hoping i wasn't home so they could get the tip without having to interact with me. not long after i got a job at goldman sachs, one of the officers called me in and got the machine. with this, he heard the recommendation. he told me

to call as soon as possible. i did, and he asked me if i knew what suitability was. i had no idea. so he introduced me to the concept. he asked me, did i ever consider that many people who called me may not be ready for the stock of the hottest semiconductor company in the land, and that i was recommending recommending it to them one on one, without any sense of whether it was right for them. suitability. was it suitable? i said i always thought the stocks were pretty much a caveat emptor situation. we all know that unlike, say, vacuum cleaners, you can't take stocks back to the store, get a refund. they come with no guarantee. so what's the deal? this executive has made it into my head that before you recommend a stock on a one on one level at a registered brokerage house of all places, you have to know what that person wanted out of. what did they want from stocks? you had to know if the stock was right for them and for their level of risk tolerance. monolithic memories, he said, wasn't exactly right for anyone other than the most risk seeking investors out there. the financial equivalent of bungee

jumpers. so let's start there. today, i want you to ask yourself, what is your tolerance? how much risk do you want out of a stock? you see, stocks are pretty peculiar pieces of merchandise when you think about it. you buy a car and you know it's not worth as much as the moment it leaves the lot. correct? but there are all sorts of warranties. you buy a house and you know it could burn down the next day. however, you can buy before you buy it, you get a binder with insurance. so if it does burn down, you can get your money back. clothes can be returned, devices, return phones, pcs, washers, dryers, you name it. but stocks. if you buy a share of nike and the next day goldman sachs downgrades it. and then a day after foot locker says there's been a slowdown in jordans, you can't go back to your broker and say, hey, chief, you never told me this could happen. i'm down 300 bucks on 2000 shares and i'm out of gum. hey, man, i'm i'm losing too much money. i want my money back. sorry. caveat emptor. now, back then, when i got started, it would have been incumbent upon the broker to recognize that the buyer would know these things could happen. maybe the

broker should never have been recommending that stock to begin with. you get the point, though, because you can't take stocks back and get the same price because there's no real insurance. although you could buy an expensive put option underneath with a cost that lowers the risk of nike pretty dramatically and has to be renewed constantly. suitability is incredibly important. that's why for the next hour, you're going to learn how to measure your own tolerance versus a variety of factors. because these days with digital brokers, there's no real protection, just a signed form that says you get it. you may not know what you're getting into tonight. the bottom line that stops here by the end of this show, you'll know what suits you and what doesn't. no matter what your age or your style, or to put it another way, caveat emptor. no, just buyer. be a little more aware of what you might be committing your hard earned dollars to when you purchase a stock. let's take calls. let's go to kyle in new jersey. kyle. >> yes, friend jim cramer. how are you buddy? >> i am good kyle. thanks for

calling. how can i help you? >> so i was wondering first of all, i am an investment club member and this is my third time talking to you, man. and i feel like i know you personally. i love you to death. thank you. i would like to know how often you look at rsi or macd data when you're buying or selling a stock. >> how have they look at the relative strength index or the back? i have to tell you, i look all the time. i do not like to buy stocks where the chart is bad. it's one of the reasons why i do off the charts on tuesdays. i think it's incredibly important, kyle, because others do. and anything that's important to others is important to me. mark in new york. mark. >> what is up? jimmy. chill. >> chill, man. here. >> what's happening? >> ira account. i have an ira account for my retirement, and i was wondering if it's okay to take some profits and then reinvest the cash in my account at another time. >> well, you know, i prefer you

to let it run. unless the stock is really soured, because i just think i don't want you to remember we're investing for the long term in ira. and i have to believe that what you saw in the stock is continued. otherwise, look, if you have to take a loss, take a loss, but keep investing in your ira, that's the best thing to do. let's go to nick in florida, please, nick. >> booyah! jimmy. >> chill. my question when do you help your children invest? is it more important to save up and give them, say a big snowball, a big lump of money when they get married or set them up early? literally an infant pay the baby with say, a small amount in dividend stocks to rephrase it in such a way. which is more important, the size of the snowball or the height of the hill that compounds it? >> wow, i love that. well, first i can't help my kids. they have to do that on their own. because of my job. i'm not allowed to know what they're up to. but what i always say to my kids is, is that, look, i want you to go make as much money as possible with half the money and the

other half, i want you to do index funds and go learn some stocks. i think when they finally decide what they're going to do with their lives, they can do it. but that's my advice to them. now, i don't know what they own because that wouldn't be right by the end of tonight's show. i hope you'll know what suits you and what doesn't. no matter what your age or your investing style. tonight i'm helping you form the necessary investing strategies you need at all stages of your life, from young to old, just like the gentleman we just talked to. i'm going to meet you where you are and take you where you need to be. so stay with cramer. >> don't miss a second of mad money follow jimcramer on x. have a question tweet cramer hashtag mad mentions. send jim an email to madmoney.cnbc.com. or give us a call at one 800 743 cnbc. miss something. head to madmoney.cnbc.com.

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paul. >> now, there are all kinds of suitability considerations in the business. first and foremost, there's age suitability. i want to start with kids, particularly babies. that money's been on so long now

that there are kids who were born, who are in their teens or and if their parents listened to my best picks when we got started, they'd already be well on their way toward some great wealth. parents. grandparents. listen up. you can give all sorts of things to families that just had babies. i want you to open up accounts for them, or at least give them some shares of stock so that from the moment, the earliest moment, you can start the process of saving. now here's my commercial for something that doesn't need a commercial, because almost every expert you hear from is in love with them. i'm talking about index funds, which aren't perfect, but they're the best way to go. if you want to put your money on autopilot and you can't spend a lot of time looking at individual stocks. just a blanket bet on the whole market. so if you just had a kid, you can take a couple of hundred smackers and buy some shares in an index fund for them. i'm partial to cheap etfs that mirror the s&p 500, because those 500 stocks represent the bedrock of america's publicly traded companies. as a companion, i like any sort of total return fund that has an

even broader array of stocks. a mix of both, i think is a terrific way to start. your broker or the brokerage site you use might have some fun that's higher growth, a junior growth fund. and that could be a nice augmentation because you're buying for an infant who has got his or her whole life ahead of him, the whole life. these kinds of things can really compound over time. meaning if you let it run, then money can build up on itself. now you might say, why am i watching a show about stocks of all this guy is doing is talking about index funds? look, i could come out here every night and talk index funds, but it wouldn't make for a very interesting show, would it? i wouldn't be giving you my best advice either. i teach you how to pick individual stocks both here, but really a huge amount in the cnbc investing club because i believe that is the most effective way to go. and i like to teach in the investing club. it's my favorite venue. i think you can build a portfolio yourself that can do better than most professional money managers or index funds. you control your own money. but i'm perfectly sanguine about the notion that stock picking and index fund investing can coexist. i just wish the

proselytizers of index funds weren't such fundamentalists about how bad everything else is. so i say, let's give both a try. when you're saving for your kids, definitely start with an index fund. now, what's a good stock for a kid just born? i think that you should pick two kinds of stocks for your children, one with a dividend where you can reinvest those dividend payments. get the power of compounding. that is such a good thing to teach people. we often hear the term dividend aristocrats, companies that have long histories, certainly more than 25 years of increasing dividends. a bum. it's hard to go wrong with the big, well-run, consumer packaged good place here. i'm talking about a company like tried and true procter and gamble, pepsico. the best way to find out my absolute favorites as soon as possible is to join that cnbc investing club i've mentioned, and watch what we do with the child trust. at the same time, you also want to give your kids something with a little more juice, like the great growth stocks of an era. i mean, i'm talking about the apples, the nvidias, the teslas, the meta's. now, if you do set

up an account for your kids, may i suggest going with a uniform gifts to minors act account? i'm going to call it ugma for short. okay, ugma the rules keep changing for these, but suffice it to say that you can give children money that can accumulate somewhat tax free over time. again, the rules have changed so much from when i set up the mutual fund for my kids through tax favored gifts. i love them because they were like, trust that you didn't need lawyers to create. check with your broker for the latest rules for you in the state you're in. they do differ. i think it's one of the better tax breaks around though. i know hunting for tax breaks may not sound very exciting, but that's how you take care of your family. besides, who doesn't want free money? there's one caveat with these accounts, though. if your kid is planning to get financial aid in college, you want to be very careful because that money can count as theirs and might get them disqualified depending on the institution. one other thought i like, you know, i believe that gold is a terrific insurance policy for any portfolio. i'm going to talk more about this later tonight,

but a highly unusual, yet totally blessed by me idea is to buy gold or silver coins for your kids, or just pieces of gold or silver. i've bought slivers of slivers for my kids from a dealer and pretty much forgotten about them. they may or may not increase. these are polar opposites of growth or income stocks. they don't throw off money, they don't do anything. but in crazy times when inflation comes roaring back and we now know it's certainly capable of happening, you've got a pretty high levels not seen since the 80s. there's nothing that's hold up in value under the scenario. better than mansions masterpiece of art and precious metals. one caveat if you do this, remember to put the gold or silver in a safe place, please. that does not mean putting it under masters, and it certainly doesn't mean putting in a hole in the ground in the backyard, a safety deposit box. more my style. so the bottom line when a child is born, think about setting up a uniform gift to minors account and put index funds or individual stocks in there. specifically, i like cheap etfs that mirror the s&p

500. and on the stock side, your kids will want to at least one dividend stock. give them one dividend stock for income because a high yield stock can double the value of that investment by the time your baby turns ten. you also want one high quality growth stock that you believe in for the long haul, because those can rack up big gains. don't put this off. this must be done at the earliest moment to get the most involved for your brand new loved one. no one has ever regretted saving too early for their kids. that money's back. >> coming up. want to turn back the clock and invest in companies for all the kids out there? cramer's got you covered next. >> good evening, mr. cramer. thank you. thank you for everything you do. you've been such a wonderful source of information with your teachings. i have to say thanks. thank you for all your advice and saving us from ourselves. your advice? let me quit a job that i hated. i love you to death. thank you

for everything you do. thanks for making us money and more importantly, thanks for keeping us from losing money. >> the club is really about empowerment, empowering you to manage your own money. >> one of the key benefits for me is knowing where jim is going to buy or sell before he does it. >> he teaches how to invest versus just what trades to make. what i like about jim is he makes it easy for someone like me to understand how to invest my money properly. booyah, jim. >> get invested. join the club today. go to cnbc.com jim.

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we've discussed the importance of suitability and the essence of what's suitable for the newborns, but what's suitable for the kids? what do you do for them? i think you should do everything in your power to get your kids involved in investing in stocks. teach them that stocks represent pieces of companies that they might like. now, let's be honest, these days most parents probably think they couldn't explain what a stock is to a kid, especially a young kid. that's not how i grew up in my house, though. as much as i love sports and we even had tickets for the 64 world series, we didn't make it, but we had them. well, to me, stocks were supreme. my father had gotten a tip from his brother who knew a stockbroker he played tennis with guy, told him to go buy a company shares in national video, which for all i know would have made it if it started right now as a facebook live show. but in the 60s it was a total bust that cost our family a fortune. papa would always bring home the philadelphia bulletin when they went out of business the afternoon edition,

and he wouldn't give me the sports section. he gave me the business section. he wanted me to learn about stocks. i look up closing prices. the market closed early back then. i try to anticipate where stocks were headed based on moving averages of how they were doing. straight line, this kind of thing. it was a game of momentum game. most of the time i only knew the stocks by their abbreviations in what we call small agate type. but it was fun game. i kept a ledger to see how i would have done on tax, which was texas instruments, or maybe it was tgs, which was texas gulf sulfur or ltv or rockwell. also, some companies that have disappeared, gotten acquired or just still hang out in tree. i also bet a lot of airline stocks because suckers are always buying those, and most kids are suckers. eastern and national mostly, but braniff too. they were household names because of advertising. of course, most people under 50 have never heard of any of these. i like the stock picking process so much. i got my whole fifth grade class at penn manor involved. we'd all pick stocks and keep track of the closing prices for a week to see who could make the most money. the

problem, of course, is that i was doing the exact opposite of what i should have been doing, although metaphorically, what i was doing then is still being done now. just picking stocks by how fast they were climbing and backing away from them if their climb seemed overextended or just slowed in velocity. instead, i should have been picking the stocks of companies i knew and asking my dad for permission to buy actually 1 or 2 shares along with the money to pay for them, which probably would have been a deal breaker. so let's go over what would have been right and what was wrong in the picture i just painted. think of this as goofus and gallant from the highlights magazines that you always used to find in the dentist's office. gallant, first of all, would never have taken a tip about national video from his brother, who'd taken a tip from his tennis partner who worked, by the way, for the aforementioned beige. i learned later my dad had no idea what national video even did. he bought. he didn't even know what they did. now you can find out more about it via google right now than you could learn from jack the broker back then. national video you see made vacuum tubes for tv sets.

in the old days, when you had a problem with your television, it was usually because the tube inside had blown. of course, the technology left national video behind, so it went bankrupt, closed its doors about five years after pop bought the stock, but had been going straight down since about five days after he bought it. the average down too many times to tell, but i know we had many a silent meal thanks to that day's decline in that godforsaken stock of national video. i think we lost most of what we had as a family. there were a host of better stocks you could have picked back in the 60s. most weren't that good according to the moving average, but they paid generous dividends. in retrospect, what we needed more than anything else was income. me, the idea of picking stocks simply because they were going up was antithetical to the idea of buying stocks in companies and was more suited to dart throwing. at least i picked the hot ones, many of which were defense contractors that were getting rich. as lbj escalated the vietnam war. well, for me, the game was a lot of fun. but in retrospect, i learned the

most about stocks from two three board games. yes, they used to have board games. those board games are called acquire and stocks and bonds. my father sold games from 3 a.m. back then. as soon as his job acquirer was all about mergers and acquisitions, stocks and bonds was a fantastic game about accumulating wealth through risky or conservative stocks. by the way, you can get those there on ebay. you can see what i mean. these days we have whole fantasy leagues of stocks, but few of them can teach you more than that. one board game stocks and bonds. it holds up. now let's go back in time and think about what i could have done differently. first, when you're a little kid, you play with toys. it would have been natural to buy shares in mattel or hasbro. now, i'm not asking the kids to know what it means to own shares in a company in terms of price, earnings, multiple, or even earnings. i'm simply saying it's a way to teach kids that a company can be owned by the public, and you can own a share in that company, too. they know toys. of course, the irony should not be lost on my family. can you imagine if my

father had bought shares in a nice dividend stock for me? three rather than national video? we had a box of cheerios on our breakfast table every day of our lives. we could have bought general mills. what a fantastic stock. and then there were the really easy ones. what kid doesn't want to go to disney world? it's that factor and not how many people sign up for the streaming service. that will always drive me back to the stock. the disney library alone should be enough to make you want to own shares in the company. but the theme park? i mean, come on, let's not outthink this game. i don't know about johnson and johnson's band-aids and shampoo. they were staples and they've since been moved to canada. i knew then as well as i know now, that kleenex is something you used to wipe your nose. there's a good company, kimberly-clark. these are things we aren't even taught. they're imprinted. finally, there's fast food. mcdonald's is obvious. or the incredibly well run chipotle. if you want something a little more organic. bottom line, please buy your kids a few shares in a name brand that they know and you know something they can see and hear and touch. then put it away. the stock won't always

work out, but think of what you like when you were little or when your parents like when they were little. see if it trades, you more than likely have a long term winner. more importantly, you've got a great hook to get your children into a lifetime of investing. let's go to madison in texas. madison. >> hi, jim. if i can get a guaranteed interest rate of over 5% by purchasing a six month treasury bond, why should i invest in the equities market given market conditions? >> okay, because six months from now, those rates may be lower. you can continue to reinvest, but the stock market has far exceeded longer term. anything that you're going to get in the short term i'm not against 5%. i own 5% paper myself. but i will tell you this. you want to take the long term view and you can buy a dividend yielding stock that is very good, like an enbridge, like a one oak that will have growth, not just dividend, no growth, only treasuries. let's go to annie in rhode island. annie.

>> hi jim. great to talk. thanks for doing these teaching segments i appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. it's what i got to do i got to teach more. and that's what i intended to do for the rest of this of the run. what's going on? >> okay, well, i really enjoy the segments you do on technical analysis, and i have two questions. one, what are the best resources if you want to study this? and how much should an amateur investor rely on charts versus fundamentals. is it even appropriate? >> great question. look, i think charts are integral to your thinking. i think that i, i really trade larry williams. you should just google larry williams. his stuff is the best. that's where i learn all the great people that we have on have websites. but in the end, technical analysis, i think i have a very good chapter in my last book and get rich carefully. i spend a lot of time talking about technical analysis. it must be done. okay, here it is. i happen to have it right with me. this is what my

dad sold for a living. can you imagine if he had bought this company 3 a.m. instead of national video? we might have been able to not have to dilute the grape. the grape juice had to put the water in the grape juice. i didn't even know why. it's because we didn't have stocks and bonds. buy your kids a few shares in a name brand, something they can see and hear and touch. like i learned with this stocks and bond game that is available on ebay. and believe me, i wish i had the rights. i'd put it out again myself digitally. there's much more mad money ahead. i'm giving you my best investing habit for the rest of your life. routines for retirement and everything in between. and then i'm answering all your burning questions with my colleague jeff marx. so stay with cramer. >> booyah jim i love you man i've been watching you from day one. >> thank you for all the wonderful advice that you provide us. >> i'm learning so much watching your show. what's your program every day? love it. >> i always wanted to say booyah on your show. thank you for being the greatest in the world.

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people children, stepchildren. their likes and dislikes can tell you a great deal. that's why i got behind domino's so passionately for over a decade, as the stock roared higher before peaking at the end of the pandemic. like most of the other delivery plays, sure, i met with patrick doyle the day he became ceo. stock was up ten bucks. yes, the stuff did taste like cardboard before he reformulated the pizza in 2010. i love that whole line of advertising and told you i thought it was a good spec. so sure, i recommended it. but that's not what made this stock a mad money crown jewel. no, it was the technology. see, my kids, like your kids, hate talking on the phone. they think it's for losers. but apps, they love them. and when my kids discovered the domino's app, well, they were sold. no talking to people who might get their order wrong. no nervousness, no worries about where their pizza was in the process. that's two things that the great local joints couldn't do. and a no cheese option for the vegans. the ones that asked twice about the cheese, as in are you sure you want no cheese? i think that's because of my kids. finally, there was the joy of

being able to pay online before the delivery person got their kids don't want to fuss with money. of course, domino's was just the tip of the iceberg. the delivery apps went on to take over the world. all this technology was totally lost to me. though i never minded. the phone was always patient about when the pizza would arrive. never cared about the delivery person. in short, i was not like the target audience. that's why i started calling domino's, the tech company that sells pizza. although now competitors can just outsource the darn stuff to doordash. many of you know the story of how i got religion on apple. roughly 20 years ago, my youngest daughter asked for a second ipod. not because she lost it as i immediately accused her of doing, but because she wanted one in another color for her. see, they were fashion accessories. she didn't want it to clash with her outfits. personal computers. i mean, come on. my various employers have never embraced apple, but my kids for a long time. they'd rather be caught dead than use a windows machine. they only

wanted macs. the iphone was more controversial. they don't like change. they didn't like the plug change. they didn't like the earbuds. but what they really don't want is the samsung. see, they're part of the apple ecosystem, the much derided, much ignored apple ecosystem with its service charges that make it so they have to pay to store all their millions of pictures. what else? fabulous. google it dad. yeah, that's how i found out about google now alphabet. and when i got the word from the kids that they weren't allowed to google something that they were involved in in school, well, just count me in. when i was doing my senior thesis at harvard, do some mindless namedropping, we had access to the fabulous librarians at houghton. their job to look up anything you wanted, they had to go to the stacks for you, as they were called, and find out things that you would know where to look for. well, that's all digital now. my kids get their news from their iphones and they get their entertainment from netflix. no, faang wasn't purely their creation. i figured out amazon, but facebook. like i said, i went to harvard when you were a freshman, you got a book. it's called facebook and it had

everybody's picture in it. facebook is a derivation of that facebook. my kids were on facebook earlier. my youngest got sick of facebook early on, probably because i got on it. but then she went on to instagram, which facebook cleverly acquired and then kept as something separate. so you really didn't know it was part of something that older people had discovered? i didn't think the ads worked until we were inundated with red hot chili pepper merchandise bought on a click for something that is my daughter said, wasn't an ad just a link? oh, lordy. does everyone else dream that their ad is just a link? but it seems that only mark zuckerberg has the forethought to care about the user experience to such an extent that it works because the ads actually make sense. you do want to click on them. how about chipotle? the kids love the fresh and organic chipotle salad. still do. they're vegetarians. my youngest returned pretty early after the food sickening incidents, the only difference being that she didn't take out because she didn't want to be seen inside. i just want to take out. nothing's perfect about their picks, but i recommended this stock from the low hundreds all the way to 2000, largely because they liked

it so much. eventually your kids will age out of the key demographic. however, if you pay attention to their likes and dislikes, you could get yourself decades worth of good stock picks. but once they reach a certain age, you need to pray for grandchildren. if you want the freshest ideas. what if the pics themselves aren't any good? what if there aren't that your kid likes a device that fits on your head and takes pictures, or it fits on a wrist and measures steps? i don't know. hey, that's the cost of learning. remember, they have their whole lives ahead of them to make that money back. if it's a screw up. you see, that's the beauty of teen investing. you can lose it and no one will notice. you pull the same kind of thing later in life. it has real consequences, like here for me. so the bottom line is that for now, you can learn from your teenage children. trust me, invest with them and you will not regret it. you may have money is back after the break. >> coming up, are you trying to figure out which kinds of investments are right for your age? well, look no further. professor cramer's taking up the

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you're picking stocks for your kids to get them interested in the market? so how about the rest of our lives? sadly, as you get older, you have less flexibility. fewer investments are indeed suitable. not initially though. when you're in college, i don't expect you to put any money away at all. college costs too much. when i used to be doing my college tours, trying to get back in that game, i tried to get people to buy a share or two of stock, but college saps the living daylights out of you in so many financial ways. i now regarded as a total hardship to even contemplate savings. but once you're out in the real world, it's imperative that you save, preferably through a 401 k plan at work or even better, a self-directed ira. now, see, i always prefer the latter because you can pick stocks, not just pick from options chosen by your employer, but typically have high fees that really knock your return down. that's for another show. this is where you have to begin the mix of index funds and individual stocks. remember, i prefer both. there's too much risk in individual stocks to just put together a portfolio of names of your own choosing. so at a minimum, i'm demanding that

you put your first ten grand of savings from your first job into an index fund, the s&p 500 being my favorite. i've mentioned before. now i know that some will argue with this. i see them arguing on social media, i don't care, i know the truth. the possibility of one really bad stock hurting your nest egg even as early as in your 20s is simply too risky. with a nice slug of cash, an index fund, no single stock or even sector can do that. but with the rest of your money behind your first, that after that first 10,000 bucks. i do like stocks and i do want you to be diversified. that's why we play in my diversity around here when we can, where i try to explain what diversification is and a breezy way. it's why we created the cbc investing club to show you how to invest, using my charitable trust as an example. although the trust has a lot of restrictions to prevent me from using the show to juke the stats, as they say in one of my favorites of the wire. but i can tell you that if you want in-depth work on stocks i frequently mention on this show, the investing club is the way to go. so i set it up because i always talk about buy and

homework. i tell you that you need to buy a stock, but then you have to keep up with it. buy and hold. does it work? remember back to earlier in the show when i discussed how hard it was to do the homework? those trips to the harvard business school library to study months old, research and microfiche. now, it's so easy that i've had to scrap one of my earlier road rules. you no longer need to spend an hour a week studying each of your stocks. sure, you need to read the conference calls. you can google articles galore. so many that you'll get sick of the process very quickly. you can have articles and research pushed to you, along with charts that i only could have dreamed of having 30 years ago. or you can read what we write at the investing club. let us help you do the homework. whatever makes you the most comfortable in your efforts to take charge of your money is what i favor. remember, i want you to be either a good manager of your money or a good client. i do not have a preference, so let's talk about picking stocks. as you get older. it's at this stage when you need to know thyself in terms of risk. until you get to the late 20s at the earliest, i want you to take tons of risk, maybe more than

you think you can handle, whether you like it or not, because you've got your whole life to make that money back if something goes wrong. but when you get to your late 20s, all i can do is ask you to think about what you'll do in a sell off. do you have the wherewithal to take a decline and buy more, or does the sell off sicken you and make you wish you had no exposure? can you accept that stocks go down? not a silly question, given how they typically do go up over a period, albeit with periodic periodic swoons down that are painful? these are crucial questions that only you can answer about yourself. i would like you to take more risks and own more individual stocks that have growth characteristics. once you put away that first 10,000 in an index fund. but once you're in your late 20s, i would hate to see you commit more than 20% of your money, your mad money, to speculative growth stocks. as you get older, i want you to capture more income by owning stocks that pay dividends, perhaps at a fund that boasts a higher dividends than the s&p 500 offers. but don't be too quick to do so. in fact, i wouldn't advise you to start investing for income until your 30s, and even then you should do

it gradually and small, only in your 40s. so i want to introduce bonds to your portfolio. now. in the old days, it would have been harsh to suggest you don't start investing in fixed income by your 30s, let alone your 40s. but the problem with that is twofold. first, life expectancy. many people are outrunning their fortunes and the bond market itself. there aren't always a lot of risk free, fixed income alternatives that don't entail a lot of risk. generally, i'd rather own a high yielding dividend stock that can raise its payout, rather than a 30 year treasury bond that yields, say, 4%. of course, as you get older, i recognize that most bonds do have that non caveat emptor provision. you can and do get your money back. can't say that with stocks as you enter your 60s, it's easy to see how you can put up to 50% of your money into bonds and take bonds up to 10% more each decade. that brings us back to the notion of suitability. if you can't handle the risk, if you think the stock market is simply not as legitimate an asset class as it once was, because it is prone to such deep valleys and what, in retrospect, look like overblown threats, then i think you have to decide yourself if cashing out or taking stocks to minimum

levels is right for you, and i can't blame you if that's the case, because it has been an uncertain asset. the bottom line it's your life, not mine. so get comfortable with what you can live with, but risk, at least until your middle years, should remain your best friend. stick with cricket. >> jim cramer is a die hard of the dollar. hey jimmy, i love the show. >> my five year old grandson loves to watch your show. >> i have to thank you for making us money when it's there to be made. >> our world is a better place with you in it. >> welcome to reinvented with accenture. today i'm here with margherita della valle, ceo of vodafone. you were employee 25 in vodafone italy. today you're the ceo of vodafone. what is your strategy and vision for the future? >> we are changing our culture to really focus on our

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club, jeff will need no introduction. for those of you who aren't members, i hope you will. of course i want you to join. i would say that jeff's insights in our back and forth help me do a great job, and him do a great job for all mad money viewers. but more importantly, for members of the club, because this is what we really do. now, if you like this, be sure to this thing, you know? i mean, like, i like when you go to, like, i went to a restaurant. you got to do it. you know, my kids show me how to do it. all right, so first up, i'm older. first up, we have tony in north carolina who asks in a losing position, what is the difference between being stubborn or taking the loss and then revisiting? okay, well, this is a fundamental question. see, in the end, what a lot of people confuse is taking a loss. you take a loss. if you find that the fundamentals are deteriorating, you don't take a loss because it's like you can't take it anymore. so i think that this notion of a losing position, if it's a position where things have changed, you should have taken it. we have made the mistake at times of not

identifying that there are changes that a company, but we don't like to view a company as a loser or a winner and a stock loser a winner. because some of our greatest picks have been losers. sure, there's. >> broken stocks, there's broken companies. but you have to identify is that if the issue at hand is a structural issue at the company, structural issue at the industry level, then that you're being stubborn if you hold on for too long. but it could present itself to be a great buying opportunity. if you stick with it and the company is able to fix itself up. >> and we've had this many of those over time. all right. now we're taking a look at some of our of your mad mentions. so let's go to isaac who says jimbo, which is what everybody calls me at home, by the way. jimbo. my whole family loves your show. thank you. i don't think i bought or sold anything in the past 30 years without checking to see if you said anything about the stock. now, this is what i love. see, isaac uses us as a resource, one of many resources. i have never claimed to be the seer. i have

claimed, and by the way, someone someone stopped this morning says, you know, you're a great entertainer. well, i like to entertain, to bring people in. i'd like to think that i'm not just a great entertainer, but what i would point out is that i want you to check. you should check. maybe we've said something. we're input. that's what we are. we are an input. are we the input? no, but we are an important input. i believe in making stock decisions. >> yeah, absolutely. it's doing the homework showing you how to do the homework so you at home don't have to. you still have to, but it's a guiding hand. >> look, i always say that if you want that there are people a lot of people say just don't index funds. i disagree with that. there are always people who are going to want to own stocks. you want to own stocks, watch the show. you remember the club. you'll be much better at it. all right. next up, we're taking a question from rachel in florida who says, hi, jim. we have a 30 year plus time horizon. we inherited some money we don't need to live on. does jim advise against investing 20,

25% of that money into s&p and the rest in stocks and bonds? okay. this is really important right now. 30 year plus time horizon. stocks. yes. bonds. no you don't need bonds until you get very old. this is one of the points where i am definitely at odds with most of the so-called seers out there. i say that when you buy a lot of bonds, you're betting against your life. if you think you're going to pass away and when you're 72, then it's 65. yes. buy bonds. i want people to think young. i know that sounds almost pollyanna, but the reason why i say it is because if you have to go into a long term care facility and you own bonds for the previous 20 years, you're not going to have enough money. stocks historically have outperformed bonds. >> 30 years long term time horizon. the key line two, you're fortunate enough where you don't need to live off that money. that means you don't have the risk of selling it in a potential market downturn. you can stay invested in the market,

and over time, you should do quite well. >> yeah, i know, look, i think that when you it's really a tricky question because people don't really like to talk about mortality. but what really does matter is, is that if you have a long life and you've cashed in on bonds in your 50s and 60s, you are going to be broke. you'll be broke. as long as you take that horizon. you can ride things out with stocks and i think you'll outperform bonds anyway. thank you. jeff, i'd like to say there's always a bull market somewhere, and i promise to try to find it just for you right here on mad money for you right here on mad money jim narrator: tonight on "shark tank"... it's not the big fish that eats the small fish. it's the quick fish that eats the slow fish. and i am the quick fish, alright? what? nobody says that. who told you that? what does this have to do with fish? what is there to think about? the product is crap. now, we are talking about cockroaches, scorpions, and even rodents. ew! screw it. i'm going to say it, okay? this grind culture, it's [bleep] ♪♪